LWIS> Hi,
LWIS> I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a
LWIS> motherboard with an old
LWIS> 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's
LWIS> MaxBlast disk manger
LWIS> software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to
LWIS> work. I have
LWIS> tried to install Mandrake 8.1 several times always with the same result:
LWIS> When I reboot,
LWIS> LIL is printed to the screen then it hangs.
LWIS> When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When
LWIS> I tried to install Linux
LWIS> the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition
LWIS> table. I thought
LWIS> that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I
LWIS> used a Win98
LWIS> boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install
LWIS> Linux again today
LWIS> and still get the LIL thing.
LWIS> Is there a way around this?
LWIS> Thanks,
LWIS> Larry
Sounds like a tough question.
- What does maxblast do? I mean, how do you make it run ? Off a
floppy? Does it add any info to your bios? Does it come before
your harddisk boots ?
- Have you tried using a system disk to boot mandrake?
- Have you tried using loadlin to boot linux from a dos system ?
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
for example, and you must have a kernel in that partition, I
assumed its name is vmlinuz, and hda5 is your "/" partition.
- Do you have your linux "kernel", I mean the boot partition at
least, within the first 8 GB ?
- Is your hard disk set to LBA or normal mode in your bios ?
( if sector and head numbers are 255 and 15 it most probably is)
Onur Kucuk
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